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by: Larry Levis
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780822956488
ISBN: 0822956489
Label: University of Pittsburgh Press
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: October 30, 1997
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Sales Rank: 228958
Studio: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Larry Levis was an outstanding poet, and a student and colleague of Philip Levine. Levine, who edited this posthumous manuscript, writes that Levis's 'early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives for as long as poetry matters.' That's high praise, and the poems in Elegy are sturdy enough to carry the weight of those expectations. Especially striking is 'The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.,' an encounter between urbanites trapped within the prisons of their routines, and an ancient-seeming possum crossing a busy city street: 'It would lift its black lips & show them / The reddened gums, the long rows of incisors, / Teeth that went all the way back beyond / The flames of Troy & Carthage...' Levis's writing is marked by memorable imagery that resonates both to the world of our daily lives and our mythic longings for transcendence.
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Rating:  - There is an afterlife, but it is this one.
If we, the reader, are skeptics and believers of the possibility of art, if we imagine that there is another space language occupies outside of that small room that is our lives, if we are willing to accept ironies and unwillingly acknowledge the tragedy that has always been the recurring theme of the individual, then this book is the past, the present, and future of our desire to live. It's hard to comprehend that there can be anything so miserable as a wish to live forever or anything so beautiful ... Read More
Rating:  - The poet's final collection and his most powerful.
When Larry Levis, author of The Wrecking Crew and The Widening Spell of Leaves, died unexpectedly in May of 1996, he left behind Elegy, a collecion of twenty poems. Readers will recognize the style of Levis. His poems are labyrinthine and digressive in a way that many readers might find off-putting, but his associative peregrinations do little to detract from the overall power of his work. Readers will find the same themes they have come to expect from Levis: death, ecstasy, and human indifference. Reading ... Read More
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